Alice Sara Ott – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNo one expects a pianist in her early 20s, however prodigiously talented, to be the finished article. Yet Alice Sara Ott's recital was still a bit of a disappointment, not because of any weaknesses in the German-Japanese pianist's playing – her technique is as buoyantly brilliant as her recordings suggest – but because too often, even in a programme that had clearly been chosen to showcase the extrovert side of her pianism, it allowed her to skate over the surface...

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